David Rysdam wrote:
>
> Richard Adams wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Is there a way to change the From:
> > > and Reply-to: feilds in ELM?
> >
> > I dont know about the From field, that would be a security issue and would
> > possably contravine some or other protocol...
>
> I don't know if you can do this with Elm, but internet emails have no
> restrictions (technologically or in the RFCs) on what you can put in the
> From/To/etc fields. This information isn't actually used by the MTAs to
> deliver mail.
>
> > ...look at it this way, if we all
> > could do that, we could send bogus mail and create havoc everywhere.
>
> Yep, this is exactly how spam is sent. That's how you can get an email
> with a To: field of "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" but still have it
> magically delivered to your mailbox.
For the record I'm not a spammer, I'm a spam-ie. I got 2 work email
addresses,
on is on the local ethernet and the other on a about ~700 miles away
connected with a 2 56K channel dedicated line. I telnet to the one on
the local ethernet, since there is virtually no lag, 10Mb/Second is
pretty fast for telnet, the other lags alot.
I give every one the "slow" email address, and forward it down here so I
have
quicker access to it. I run procmail from here that gets rid of alot of
the
spam. I want to have ALL my email appear from the "slow" server so that
no one
knows my virtually spam free one.
Use the "slow" one as a spam sheild *SPLAT* :)
>
> Furthermore, all of this is extremely easy to do given about 45 minutes
> of study time with the appropriate RFCs (SMTP in particular).
>
That or telnet to mail.server.com port 25 and type help and learn it in
2 mintues :)
> --
> My public encryption key is available from
> www.az.com/~drysdam/crypt/rysdam.gpg.html
> and of course www.keyserver.net
